Dixie Bibb Graves

Dixie Bibb Graves (26 July 1882-21 January 1965) was a US Senator from Alabama (D) from 20 August 1937 to 10 January 1938, succeeding Hugo Black and preceding J. Lister Hill.

Biography
Dixie Bibb was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1882, and she married state legislator and first cousin Bibb Graves in 1900. She became a civic leader, serving as President of the United Daughters of the Confederacy from 1915 to 1917, being involved in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and being an activist for the women's suffrage movement. In 1937, after Hugo Black was elevated to the US Supreme Court, Governor Bibb Graves appointed Dixie to succeed him in the US Senate, and she was the first woman senator from Alabama and the first married woman senator. During her term, she voted in support of New Deal programs directed at agriculture, crop control, and labor policy, and she worked for the Red Cross and the United Service Organizations after she left the Senate, during World War II. She died in 1965.